Delightful Divas review

June 21st, 2010

Nothing but Sex: Cougar
Challenge by Fran Lee
Publisher: Ellora’s Cave
Genre: Erotic, Contemporary Romance
Length: 67 pagesReview Copy Received from AuthorSummary:Lee Blackhorse is hardly Cougar
material, no matter what her friends over at Tempt the Cougar say. A
forty-two-year-old woman who lusts after her thirty-year-old weekend helper is
just plain nuts. Or is she? Mike Running Elk is the sexiest thing ever to don
tight jeans and a second-skin t-shirt. She’s secretly yearned for the man for
years.

Mike has no problem seeing himself
in the role of Lee’s lover. In fact, if he can just get the hot-as-hell woman
to realize he’s plenty old enough to ring her bells, he plans to do more than
just clean her barn and mow her grass. He’s waited for her long enough.

When Mike shows up at her door with
an injured hand, he notices Lee can’t pull her eyes off his naked, ripped
chest. Mike can’t believe she’s as oblivious as she acts. The ice has been
broken and he intends to heat things up even more.

Kathy’s Review:Nothing But Sex by Fran Lee was quite a bit
different from the first of her books that I’d read, but that doesn’t mean
anything bad… it just means that I got to enjoy yet another facet of her
writing!

Personally I like Cougar stories –
older women, younger men – if it’s good enough for men, then it’s darned-well
good enough for women! And there’s something that I find very, very sexy about
a younger man falling in love with an older woman; not exactly sure what it is,
but it’s rapidly becoming a favorite theme.

I loved Mike; definitely a man who
knew his own mind, I’m glad that he finally took the bull by the horns and
acted. If he’d waited for Lee to make the first move, it’d never have happened.
She really had a hard time thinking of him other than the teenager / young man
he was when she first met him. I don’t know how she could have missed it
though!

Whew… he’s one HAWT fella.

Lee’s been through the wringer with
her ex-husband, but she’s not bitter or self-pitying and she’s aware that she
has to take a stand with him. I like that about her; it would’ve been all too
easy to give in to the anger and humiliation that he’d heaped upon her
throughout their marriage. But it’s obvious, from her thoughts back to the
beginning of their relationship that she’s grown and changed. Sometimes it’s
the hard things in life that spur us onto growth as a person and Lee is very
much one that learned, not only to value herself, but to know when enough was
more than enough.

Once again, I really enjoyed the
way that Fran Lee works her characters. They’re not one-dimensional,
even in a shorter story; she’s able to bring their personalities to the
surface. She’s also very good at setting the scene; I could easily envision the
surroundings and even what was happening.

I’m definitely looking forward to
exploring the other stories in Fran Lee’sCougar Challenge
series. Even with so little interaction between them and Lee I got a feel for
each of them. Of course I’ll be holding Ms. Lee wholly responsible for
my purchases. If she hadn’t written such an involving tale, I wouldn’t find
myself at this precipice. If I were to say anything to the very talented Fran
Lee, it’d have to be ‘see what you’re making me do?’